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Know your margins.
QuickBooks-connected WIP schedules and gross-margin tracking for construction accountants and GCs.
$49–249/mo
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Independent software studio · Ellicott City, MD
Five companies.
Five companies.
One job each,
done well.
Hive Five Labs builds focused vertical software for underserved trades — one job done well, at a tenth the price of the giants.
01 · THE FIVE
Five verticals the big platforms priced out.
Each is its own company with its own product, brand, and customers. What they share is a thesis: pick one expensive headache in an underserved trade and solve it properly, for a fraction of what the incumbents charge.
Stamp
Your whole signing business in one app.
Appointments, state-compliant journal, GPS mileage, invoicing and 1099 export for mobile notaries and signing agents.
$19/mo
Private beta
Cubby
Run your whole facility from one screen.
Tenant ledgers, autopay, lien automation and gate-code control for sub-100-unit self-storage operators.
$49/mo
Coming soon
Truck
Enterprise software, minus the BS.
Flat-rate price book, mobile quoting and simple dispatch for solo and 1–3 truck HVAC shops.
$59/truck/mo
Coming soon
Shingle
Photograph the damage. Drive off with the report.
AI-drafted, insurance-ready roof inspection reports — captured and exported on-site, before climbing back in the truck.
$79/rep/mo
Coming soon
More to come
Same playbook, new trade.
Every company starts the same way — find ten people paying to make a real problem go away, then build.
02 · APPROACH
How we pick what to build.
Software for the bottom 70% of a market the incumbents only serve at the top. Three rules keep us honest.
01
Pain first, features second.
We only build where there's a specific, expensive headache — not a feature wish-list. If it doesn't save real time or recover real money, it doesn't ship.
02
For operators, not investors.
Built by people who'd actually use the tool, in the customer's own vocabulary — facilities, trucks, signings, reps, WIP — and priced for a single operator.
03
A tenth the price of the giants.
ServiceTitan, Storable, CompanyCam, Notary Gadget — great for the top 30%. We're the small thing that does one job well for the rest.